2016 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Sun 22 May 2016
BBC 'thinks Scots are dumber than the English'
Comedy writer's bombshell claims
22/05/2016 … A comedy writer has claimed BBC executives told him to pitch a script to BBC Two rather than BBC Scotland – because Scottish viewers are stupider than their English…
Sat 21 May 2016
BBC Three just got more Witless
Second series for Kerry Howard and Zoe Boyle comedy
21/05/2016 … BBC Three has commissioned a second series of Witless, the sitcom starring Kerry Howard and Zoe Boyle as flatmates put into the witness protection programme.
Mr Ed's human star dies
21/05/2016 … Alan Young, who starred in the talking horse sitcom Mr Ed, has at the age of 96.
Fri 20 May 2016
© BBC/King Bert BBC orders Walliams & Friend series
Jack Whitehall to be guest star
20/05/2016 … Sketch show David Walliams and Friends has been given a full series on BBC One.
The dangers of inflation...
20/05/2016 … • 'There's an inherent anger in English audiences' Russell Howard.
Watch Stephen Fry in his new US sitcom
CBS release The Great Indoors trailer
20/05/2016 … The first trailer has been released for Stephen Fry's new US sitcom, The Great Indoors.
BFI preserves comedy training videos
Titles from John Cleese's Video Arts
20/05/2016 … Corporate training videos featuring comedians are to be preserved by the British Film Institute.